The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-09


TIE London Standards correspondent at
Shanghai says: ''There is strenuous oppo-
sition to the new banking syndicate. The
college of censors has presented memo
rial to the throne against the scheme. Ii
Hung Chang is almost alone in supporting
it. The project even if sanctioned viii prob
ably be modified"
THE town Of Boppard, on the Rhine, was
partially destroyed by fire the other day,
and large number of parsons were left
without homes.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Express Com
pany's bu siness has been sold to the United
States Express Company. Jay Gould is
said to be the real purchaser, and reports
state that Garrett has also sold the Balti-
more g. Ohio railroad and telegraph, or
placed the property in the hands Of the
Drexel, Morgan 81 Co. syndicate, being
hard up for money.
PRINCE NAPOLEON and Prince Victor have
written to ex-Empress Eugene asking to
be excused from attending the transfer of
the remains OF Napoleon III. and the Prince
Imperial from Chiselhurst to Marlborough
on the ground that it would be impolitic
for the father and son to meet each other
IT is announced that T. V. PowderIy, gen
eral master workman of the Knights OF
Labor, will go to Ireland in October to
take an active part in the national move.
ment.
PRAEZ1NI, the murderer of Nine. Reg
naxlt, her maid and q child, was executed
at Paris on the 31st. He struggled desper-
ately with his executioners before being
guillotined A bowling and disOrderly mob
was present.
at Paso del Norte, Mexico, on the 30th by
striking him with a cane. Zubia claimed
to have been insulted.
THE Bank of England has advanced its
rate Of discount from three to four per
cent.
THE Pope has received $40, 600 contribu-
tions, to be devoted to paying the expenses
of his jubilee mass.
FIRE in Cairo, Egypt, the other day de-
stroyed a block in the center of the town,
causing heavy loss.
PRINCE BISMARCK has instructed the pro-
vincial governments of Germany to pro-
mote the interests of trade guilds.
THE propeller Jay Gould, bound for
Chicago, run aground on the west end of
Bois Blanc island the other morning IN a
dense fog.
SEVERAL Russians were killed at Kashgar
recently during a riot Occasioned, it was
said, by insults offered to Mohammedan
women. The Russian mission has returned
to Khokand.
THE vapor stove makers are contemplat-
MAIL advices indicate that the troubles in
Havana were not so serious as reported by
telegraph.
THE Papal Envoy at Tipperary recently
said the Pope loved Ireland and would do
all in his power to and in the prosperity of
the country.
THE French Government has decided to
prosecute the Figaro for publishing details
of the mobilization scheme.
Ry aO11isiOr, hatIEyacD RrifyeT1
steamers Salisbury and John Adamson at
Antwerp the other day both were badly
damaged
BIZ an outbreak of trichinosis in Bruins
wick, Germany, sixty persons have been
affected and five have died.
THE Socialists of the Hague gave a fete
on the I'd in honor of NIeuwenhuis. who had
been released from prison. A collision with
the police took place, and in the melee
rests were made.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's repOrt) during
the seven days ended September numbered
for the United States 175, for Canada a.
total 199, compared with 185 the previous
week, and 100 for the corresponding week
last year.
AN American schooner fishing inside the
Canadian limits has been captured near
CampObella, N. B.
HENRY TAYLOR, ex-president of the Bank
of London and president of the Ontario In
vestment Association of London, Ont, was
arrested in that city on the I'd. The cause
of his arrest was not made public.
EMPEROR WILLIAM had a fall after the
parade of the guards on the I'd. He was
only slightly shaken, but much alarm was
felt.
THE Gar has recovered the use of his
left arm, which was alleged to have been
disabled by rheumatism.
THE Steele announces the issue of a great
loan to transform the floating debt and the
old four and half per cent. rentes of France
into perpetual three per cents, in order to
provide resources for the extraordinary
budget of 1888 and for the conversion Of
debts which the State may be called upon
to pay at short notice.
A BELGIAN officer and an American doc
tor, taking notes on the ambulance system,
were arrested at Toulouse, France, the
other day on suspicion of being spies.